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Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by end of 2029

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Named defendant; agency is appealing

A federal judge has ordered Texas to install air conditioning in every state prison by the end of 2029. The ruling, issued Sept. 22, follows a three-year lawsuit over summer heat that advocates said pushed heat indexes past 130 degrees in some units.

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